Creating Enviromental Policy in the European Union

This text investigates the European Union (EU) policy making process and why this process has taken major steps to advance environmental regulation in some areas, such as the waste trade, and not in others. The book develops a framework emphasizing decision making modes, which provide a more nuanced understanding, compared to traditional EU theoretical approaches, of how EU actors make decisions. Using this approach, the work explores three environmental issue areas transboundary air pollution, the carbon/energy tax proposal, and hazardous waste.

Author Biography

ANTHONY R. ZITO is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Newcastle. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches European and environmental politics. His research interests include environmental politics and regulation, European Union institutions and decision-making, and the linkage between environmental and economic policies. Recently he has published articles in the Journal of European Public Policy, and Environment and Planning C (Government and Policy) and co-authored articles in Governance and Environmental Politics.